Some Interesting Notes about Oriental Rugs

Paper. Used, very good condition, former owner's signature on front end paper, light foxing on endpapers, covers clean, text block crisp so it looks like the former owner did not feel the need to explore the interesting notes about Oriental rugs. Mitchell, Robert A., Furniture Co. SOME INTERESTING NOTES ABOUT ORIENTAL RUGS. N. d. 76 p., 23 black and white illlustrations, fig., 19 x 13 cm. Most of the text is identify to a 1903 book with the same title published by the Karagheusian importing firm, who allowed its retail rug dealers to use it with suitable revisions to give to their customers. The revision consists of a two page introduction describing the Mitchell Furniture company. Most of the text describes town and areas in Persia and Turkey, and what is being currently made (in 1903) in them. There are much smaller section on Turkmen ("Bokhara", Afghan- Kiva, Yamoud and Belouchistan) and the Caucasus. About half of the illustrations are of people and scenery. Useful for seeing what importers were saying about the rug trade at the turn of the last century.…